Someone abandoned the 3-foot-long figurine at a residence in the 100 block of 12th Street. According to City of Fond du Lac Assistant Police Chief Steve Klein, the homeowner woke up to discover the baby statue on the porch and didn't know who might have left it there.The department then took the figurine into its care until its owners could be located.

After a few days of no reports of a missing figurine, the department received word Thursday afternoon that the baby Jesus had been removed from Holiday Automotive. The car dealership noticed Wednesday the star of its Nativity was missing from the scene they have along State 23. How the figurine came to be on the doorstep remains unknown.

The Baby Jesus statue is not the only décor that has been displaced this year. In August, a rash of thefts left multiple homes without their metal lawn ornaments. A video captured a middle-aged, short-haired white man taking a large sunflower ornament on Mary Lee Drive. This later matched the description a resident provided of a man who took two metal sunflower lawn ornaments from a home on Yacoub Lane. He drove a silver or tan wagon-type vehicle with a roof rack.